Coral reefs

A Florida county is in talks to acquire a storied but aging ocean liner in a proposed deal that could create the largest artificial reef in the world. But the plan hit a snag Tuesday, after local officials in coastal Okaloosa County in the Florida panhandle postponed a vote on the plan to buy and purposefully sink the SS United...

Biodegradable boba straws are being used as coral forts by Reef Fortify to protect coral from predators, like the parrotfish, that will eat the corals before they have a chance to survive on the reef.

Biodegradable boba straws are being used as coral forts by Reef Fortify to protect coral from predators, like the parrotfish

Florida’s governor came to the Florida Keys on Wednesday to announce a new initiative aimed at restoring the state’s battered coral reefs. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced a new initiative to help coral reefs recover and to build more artificial reefs.

The abnormally high water temperatures have caused widespread coral bleaching, and the heat wave appears to be causing a fatal condition called Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease to spread faster than usual.  Here’s what researchers are doing to help the problem.

Coral reefs have been bruised and battered this summer with the warm waters and now they face a new issue, stony coral tissue loss disease.

The relocation is a preventative measure to help protect the corals from hot water temperatures, which can cause coral bleaching.

A coral restoration group based in the Florida Keys has begun relocating local coral to cooler waters amid a marine heat wave.

Researchers from the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science are harvesting corals from their coral farm off the coast of Key Biscayne, trying to protect them from the underwater heatwave.

Scientists at the University of Miami are conducting a coral rescue mission amid coral bleaching, NBC6’s Ari Odzer reports.

Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration documented extensive coral bleaching on reefs in the Florida Keys a few days ago. Bleaching is a stress response that can be caused by disease, pollution, or high water temperatures.

Hot ocean temperatures have caused a massive bleaching and die off of the coral reefs, forcing scientists to seek new solutions.

The high temperatures cause corals to bleach, which means they lose the symbiotic algae which give them their color

With water temperatures at an all-time high, scientists are getting worried about the long-term effects ‘bleaching’ is having on South Florida’s coral reefs.